10 Facts About Sero Khanzadyan

Sero Khanzadyan was born in 1915 to a peasant family in the town of Goris located in the district of Zangezur.

Sero Khanzadyan published his first short story, titled Chor tape, in 1934 in the newspaper Karmir Zangezur.

Sero Khanzadyan rose to the rank of captain in a mortar company in the 261st Rifle Regiment.

One of the main ideas Sero Khanzadyan promoted in his work was that the Armenians should fight shoulder to shoulder with the Russians, Ukrainians and other nationalities to protect their motherland.

Sero Khanzadyan often drew attention to the centuries-long relationship between Armenians and Russians in his works.

Besides the war, Sero Khanzadyan wrote about the Armenian genocide, including his novel, Six Nights.

Sero Khanzadyan wrote about the life of the eighteenth-century Karabakh Armenian jester and folk collector Pele Pughi.

In 1977, Sero Khanzadyan wrote an open letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev calling for Nagorno-Karabakh's annexation to Soviet Armenia.

Sero Khanzadyan is buried at the Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan.

Sero Khanzadyan left a great legacy in the field of Armenian literature, which was inspired by Soviet notions and ideas of internationalism, strong ties with the folk culture and tradition.